Motivational Quotes

Action

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

2.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

3.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

4.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

5.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

6.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

7.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

8.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

9.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

10.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

11.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

12.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

15.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

16.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

18.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

19.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

20.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

23.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

24.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

26.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

27.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

29.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

30.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

32.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

33.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

35.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

36.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

38.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

39.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

40.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

42.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

43.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

44.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

46.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

48.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.